The best scifi and fantasy authors as rated by readers of Focus magazine, sorted by frequency of occurrence. http://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCenturyPollsResults.html

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 15 Heinlein, Robert A.
 13 Le Guin, Ursula K.
 12 Asimov, Isaac
 11 Gaiman, Neil
 10 Zelazny, Roger
 9 Chiang, Ted
 8 Bradbury, Ray
 7 Wolfe, Gene
 7 Martin, George R. R.
 7 Clarke, Arthur C.
 6 Willis, Connie
 6 Vinge, Vernor
 6 Sturgeon, Theodore
 6 Stross, Charles
 6 Mieville, China
 6 Lovecraft, H. P.
 6 Leiber, Fritz
 6 Ellison, Harlan
 6 Dick, Philip K.
 6 Bacigalupi, Paolo
 5 Tiptree, James, Jr.
 5 Stephenson, Neal
 5 Rowling, J. K.
 5 McCaffrey, Anne
 5 Delany, Samuel R.
 5 Bujold, Lois McMaster
 4 Vance, Jack
 4 Silverberg, Robert
 4 Pratchett, Terry
 4 Gibson, William
 4 Card, Orson Scott
 4 Bester, Alfred
 3 Watts, Peter
 3 Vonnegut, Kurt
 3 Varley, John
 3 Tolkien, J. R. R.
 3 Smith, Cordwainer
 3 Simak, Clifford D.
 3 Reynolds, Alastair
 3 Niven, Larry
 3 McDonald, Ian
 3 King, Stephen
 3 Kay, Guy Gavriel
 3 Johnson, Kij
 2 Swirsky, Rachel
 2 Swanwick, Michael
 2 Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris
 2 Simmons, Dan
 2 Shepard, Lucius
 2 Scalzi, John
 2 Russell, Eric Frank
 2 Robinson, Kim Stanley
 2 Resnick, Mike
 2 Pohl, Frederik
 2 Peake, Mervyn
 2 Link, Kelly
 2 L'Engle, Madeleine
 2 Kress, Nancy
 2 Kornbluth, C. M.
 2 Keyes, Daniel
 2 Kelly, James Patrick
 2 Jackson, Shirley
 2 Howard, Robert E.
 2 Haldeman, Joe
 2 Fowler, Karen Joy
 2 Ford, Jeffrey
 2 Farmer, Philip Jose
 2 Egan, Greg
 2 Donaldson, Stephen R.
 2 Doctorow, Cory
 2 Crowley, John
 2 Butler, Octavia E.
 2 Brin, David
 2 Bear, Greg
 2 Beagle, Peter S.
 2 Banks, Iain M.
 2 Anderson, Poul
 1 Wyndham, John
 1 Wilson, Robert Charles
 1 White, T. H.
 1 Weinbaum, Stanley G.
 1 Waldrop, Howard
 1 Stewart, Mary
 1 Stewart, George R.
 1 Sterling, Bruce
 1 Stapledon, Olaf
 1 Shaw, Bob
 1 Sanderson, Brandon
 1 Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
 1 Russ, Joanna
 1 Russell, Mary Doria
 1 Rothfuss, Patrick
 1 Rice, Anne
 1 Pullman, Philip
 1 Priest, Christopher
 1 Powers, Tim
 1 (& Pournelle, Jerry)
 1 Orwell, George
 1 Orwell
 1 Novik, Naomi
 1 Niffenegger, Audrey
 1 Morgan, Richard
 1 Moore, C. L. (& Henry Kuttner)
 1 Moorcock, Michael
 1 Mitchell, David
 1 Mirrlees, Hope
 1 Miller, Walter M., Jr.
 1 Miller, Walter M. , Jr.
 1 McKillip, Patricia A.
 1 McIntosh, Will
 1 McHugh, Maureen F.
 1 McCarthy, Cormac
 1 MacLeod, Ian R.
 1 Lynch, Scott
 1 Longyear, Barry B.
 1 Liu, Ken
 1 Lewis, C. S.
 1 Lem, Stanislaw
 1 Leinster, Murray
 1 Lanagan, Margo
 1 Kuttner, Henry [Lewis Padgett]
 1 Knight, Damon
 1 Jordan, Robert
 1 Jones, Dianna Wynne
 1 Jemisin, N. K.
 1 Ishiguro, Kazuo
 1 Huxley, Aldous
 1 Hughart, Barry
 1 Holdstock, Robert
 1 Hobb, Robin
 1 Herbert, Frank
 1 Harrison, M. John
 1 Grimwood, Ken
 1 Gregory, Daryl
 1 Grahame, Kenneth
 1 Goldman, William
 1 Godwin, Tom
 1 George
 1 Gardner, James Alan
 1 Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
 1 Gaiman/Pratchett
 1 Fforde, Jasper
 1 Feist, Raymond E.
 1 Ende, Michael
 1 Eddison, E. R.
 1 Eddings, David
 1 Davidson, Avram
 1 Crichton, Michael
 1 Collins, Suzanne
 1 Clarke, Susanna
 1 Chwedyk, Richard
 1 Cherryh, C. J.
 1 Chabon, Michael
 1 Campbell, John W.
 1 Burroughs, Edgar Rice
 1 Burgess, Anthony
 1 Bulgakov, Mikhail
 1 Brunner, John
 1 Brown, Fredric
 1 Brooks, Terry
 1 Bradley, Marion Zimmer
 1 Blish, James
 1 Bixby, Jerome
 1 Bisson, Terry
 1 Bear, Elizabeth
 1 Barker, Clive
 1 Ballard, J. G.
 1 Baker, Kage
 1 Atwood, Margaret
 1 Anthony, Piers
 1 Aldiss, Brian W.
 1 Adams, Richard
 1 Adams, Douglas
 1 Abraham, Daniel
 1 Abercrombie, Joe